A brand new tv collection about U2 is within the work from Star Wars director J.J. Abrams.
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In response to reviews in The Hollywood Reporter, Selection, and Deadline, Abrams and his Unhealthy Robotic Productions firm are creating a scripted collection for Netflix concerning the Bono-fronted band.
There are reviews that the script for the present is being written by Anthony McCarten, the scrip-writer behind Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, U2 are “anticipated to be concerned and sanction the challenge.”
NME has reached out to representatives of Abrams and Netflix for remark.
Final November, U2 guitarist The Edge revealed that the band have been engaged on a brand new album.
The replace got here shortly after the four-piece launched the observe ‘Your Music Saved My Life’, their first new materials in two years.
Their most up-to-date studio album, ‘Songs Of Expertise’, got here out again in 2017.
In the meantime, Bono stated again in January that he dislikes U2’s identify, most of their songs and his personal singing voice.
Throughout an look on the Awards Chatter podcast, the frontman defined that he turns off the radio when the group’s tracks are performed as a result of he can’t hearken to his vocals. He additionally claimed that he had solely learnt how you can sing “just lately”.
Again in January, U2 shared a brand new acoustic model of ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the titular bloodbath.